There’s not a thing you can do as an individual that will have near the impact of countering the wealthy gross over usage of resources and industrial pollution. It’s a fools errand so don’t try to guilt people who don’t recycle.
Poor people shouldn’t segregate trash, shouldn’t collect bottles etc.
Instead cheapest products should be biodegradable, wrapped in something that can’t last shit, transported only by ships and trains. It’s the companies who profit from selling products that should be held responsible for the product eco footprint.
I use paper straws, I can’t get a bag at the supermarket to hold anything but I still have to pay for those bags.
These cunts get to keep wasting the earth. Yes I’m including Taylor Swift, Jeff Bezos, the heads of Microsoft, Adobe, HP and all the rest.
You should look up the fascinating technology of “reusable bags”. I haven’t bought one in years!
I shall relook into those bags I forget every time I go to the shops.
Maybe move on there mate…
Just remember the Tim Minchin song!
Ahahaha you’re a big dickhead I like you.
If you’re ever in Sydney we should get a beer and brutally insult each other.
Today, work machine gave me suggestions for how the be eco friendly. (Turning off screen after 5 minutes. Sleep mode after 15 minutes)
All I can think of is how much Microsoft CAN invest in eco mode, but chooses money (or the hope of money in AI) instead.
also (More Microsoft hate)
Every time I’m back to work and forced to windows, I get a new problem. This popes up while reading emails
Did it specify “of unactivity” or did they radically reduce your work hours?
So Qatar was way better every stadium is at a 30min drive distance
So here’s the thing: when the next heatwave hits it’s not Infatino’s kids that will sit in a 40 degree classroom and cry for their moms, your kids will. When the next forest fire razes some village it’s not Infatino that will be left homeless, you will. When drought hits they will not cut water to Inantino’s home, they will cut your water.
Infantino doesn’t care about his carbon footprint because whatever happens he will be fine. It’s all of us, poor people, that will suffer the consequences. Not limiting your emissions because “the rich are not doing their part” will only hurt you, not the rich.
So we should hurt the rich? I could get behind that
Yes, go for it. They have huge resources they can spend on security and the state will protects them with everything they have but I’m sure you, ordinary citizen, can “hurt” them. And once they are “hurt” they will voluntarily relinquish their wealth and power and start working with you to stop climate change. I’m sure of it.
If he’s just one, there are thousands or so using private executive transport, and these believe they would rather have a presence than trying to use something like Zoom.
Sustainability for thee, not for me.
Also, some surprised-thunder-rat-moments here: https://ferw.eu/fifas-climate-strategy-exposed-greenwashing-at-the-heart-of-the-worlds-game/
Let’s add the flights of the teams. Let’s ask if that is necessary.
If you’re going to start counting shipping costs for the goods then you should compare thet to Amazon
The data shows that we should be recycling the rich into fertilizer.
Feed the CIWS turret.
We recycled for that fuck to ride a flying chariot around the world.
Hank Green actually explained something optimistic after the Blue Origin rocket explosion (here on Youtube), that yes, there are big companies and big billionaires being superfluously wasteful.
But there are a lot of us recycling our bottles and cans, and when we collectively do this, it makes more of a difference than rockets going boom, and jetsetting billionaires.
Granted, we need to drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy for a vast myriad of reasons, but we do collectively make a big difference.
yes and no. be a good person do your bit but don’t forget to hold billionaires accountable (with more fervour than just a “yes but”) because they waste resources and fuck up the environment 1000 times more than an average individual and have no qualms about it. Nay they enjoy it and sometimes they even try to capitalize on it by acting as if they are on the team green (Taylor Swift). parasites are gonna parasite.
yeah I really fucking hate how this particular meme format seems to subtly imply we can just stop making an effort. Always downvote whenever I see it.
Always downvote whenever I see it.
Glad there’s… 12 of us :|
Yeah, we could have a world in which we have ultra rich billionaires individually wasting that of a small nation on the regular and no one doing anything to try to offset it. I 100% get the defeatism, but it really does no one any good.
You’re right, we can’t afford to either only recycle all our bottles or only drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy.
When you eat the rich, consider using an eco-friendly fuel
There’s only about 3400 billionaires in the world, and wood is a renewable resource, so we could burn the guillotines when we’re done with them and still be carbon neutral!
That’s what posts like this miss— collective action works, be it in collective bargaining, politics, or environmental action. It can be less effective than stronger actors, but it is still very effective. And often is more effective. People also miss that the average output of trash from middle class people is still a bit much.
Another point is that there are many areas where existing recycling and other environmentally friendly approaches can be greatly improved. For instance, the infinitely recyclable aluminum beverage cans are only recycled at around 43% in the US. Despite any wasteful practices by the ultra-wealthy, this is an area where everyone still must be diligent.
Don’t forget about Linus. The quotes on the site are what he said, when he was showing off the jet.
Is that him using his jet or is it like a rented jet where other people use it when he doesn’t?
Bruh wtf TIL LTT has a private jet
People on youtube defend him for it.
i felt the controversy last year or the year before, made him even more money. he was definitely panicking after that happened.
Is there a word, possibly German, for when you discover that the person you got douchey vibes off for years but couldn’t quite pin down why, is revealed to be exactly what you suspected? I just had flashbacks to Will Smith at the Oscars.
There is not, at least in german. But german offers us the possibility of making one. I´ll use the Zangendeutsch for douche, “Dusche”, then “Verdacht” for the suspicion, “Bestätigung” for its revelation as true and “Moment” which is german for, well, moment. Put in some suffixes (-en and -s) for grammatical reasons et voila: Duschenverdachtsbestätigungsmoment, a brand new german word meaning “the moment of the confirmation of the suspicion of the douche”.
bless you for that
LTT has always been a techbro, surrounded by other techbros.
I haven’t watched LTT in a long time (basically ever since it was publicly obvious the money got to his head and everything that comes with ego), so when I saw somewhere he bought a jet, I first thought it was April Fools. Then after a short research I realized he’s for real. My partner, on the other hand, was convinced I fell for it, and it took me a while to prove him otherwise.
Absolutely wild what Linus managed to convince (some of?) his fanboys. People will suck off filthy rich assholes like it’s their job.
Funny how he finally managed to buy his own place after ditching LTT. Just another proof how much wealth the rich are extracting from us.
(PS: no severance package after working for so long for LTT is such a dick move)
most influencers on YT are already quite wealthy or well off, yea he built his “brand” over 10+years. and then there are the low bottomfeeders influencers that want to be the rich ones too.
Not entirely sure what the point of your comment is.
However, most influencers/“content creators” aren’t wealthy. Only the top of the top. I can’t tell you the percentage, but I know for a fact many of them are compensated only in paid travel and accommodation when traveling to promote whatever they’re paid to promote. They don’t get actual money. I know because there’s an influencer in my partner’s extended family who was pushed into the “business” very young by their parent.
There are also many who earn just enough as if they were working a regular 9-5 job. And if their viewership drops — which it usually does — they’re fucked.
For a minute I thought it was Torvalds and was highly confused.
Yeah, I don’t think the guy linked is famous enough to not have the “YouTuber” qualifier.
How do you think all the commits get reviewed? He’s got to pick them up!
What the hell do they need a private jet for, that has to be a ego purchase, also they have the money for this but not for taking care of their employees, especially the ones getting harassed, I unsubscribed to their channel when they dropped that fake apology video with Advertisement, cant believe they are still profitable
i glance several thumbnails of his former employees that basically complained about him, although some of them thought they were getting ahead in thier industry/field by working for him.
Everything Linus buys seems like an ego purchase.
It’s basic girl math.
Love that Canadian south park character of Linus lol
Yes, he’s a wasteful, elitist asshole, but still keep on recycling. Better yet, stop using plastic bottles (and other disposable plastic stuff) altogether, and get non-plastic, reusable bottles/containers, which you can refill. The best drink containers are thermally insulated, so you can put hot or cold drinks with ice in them, so they stay hot or cool for hours, and have drink spouts on them.
Edit: my personal recommendation would be IronFlask, but there are other quality brands that others here may recommend
Better yet, stop watching fifa sponsored games and make sure you don’t contribute anything to their revenue.
Although seems like that’s impossible to a large number of people.
I don’t watch sports.
Wouldn’t be better if we all stopped recycling and demand the private Jets to be banned with exeptions?
Hank Green did a video inspired by a similar meme after the Blue Origin rocket explosion. He acknowledged that plastic recycling isn’t great, but encouraged focusing on other materials like aluminium. The explosion released 825 tons of carbon dioxide, which is ~1% of the hourly emissions of the aluminum industry. The current amount of recycled cans in the US saves the equivalent to 15 rocket explosions of carbon every day.
So yeah, get a reusable container, and try using aluminum instead of plastic.
Heads up: your YouTube link tells shows your channel to everyone who clicks it. This is due to YouTube’s new messaging feature, and how they set the default privacy settings to share your channel with everyone whenever you post a link. You need to remove everything from the ?is= onwards and also turn off the sharing feature if you don’t want everyone on Lemmy getting your profile and the ability to YouTube chat with you
yeah, and there was a recent expose about how, on top of the fact that most plastic recycling doesn’t actually reduce overall pollution all that much, a huge amount of state and municipal recycling programs had been subsumed by some massive scam that just offloaded recycling waste to some 3rd-party program that eventually buried it all in landfills or dumped it somewhere anyway.
the real answer is to stop producing/consuming so much waste (especially petrochemical-based waste) in the first place and to live in more sustainable and less waste-producing systems.
Oh good allegory would be: stop taking all of those cholesterol and blood pressure medication’s, and just eat healthier and exercise more.
I 100% agree with your plastic statements. However, wanted to make a note that it is standard practice to put type 1 diabetics on a low dose blood pressure medication because it reduces wear on their kidneys, thereby reducing the risk of renal failure and other complications. Cholesterol meds are also prescribed proactively to people with a variety of chronic illnesses, particularly those related to heart health, who are often eating better than anyone here, but have higher risks of complications. Medications are tools amongst a variety of ways to help people live better lives.
All that to say, what choices you make about medications and their place in your health are completely valid for you. That doesn’t mean your choices are applicable across the board. Please don’t give medical advice on the internet. (A conversation about the importance of communities designed to encourage exercise, and easy access to affordable unprocessed/low processed food is a different thing from “don’t take medications: everything can be cured by kale and a walk in the woods”)
Absolutely. I also want to point out how in some places reducing plastic consumption is so much easier than in others.
Anecdotal: I now live walking distance from a “no plastic” shop that mostly refills your own containers -veggies, dried and liquid stuff… my plastic consumption is most weeks only the milk bottles. I used to live in many other places in which a life like this was hard or outright impossible.
Support local movements to allow you to not use plastic, reuse and refills containers, or get rid of them.
Thankfully my country has a deposit system for cans and bottles (except for strong alcoholic drinks for some reason. Beer has deposit, wine, vodka etc do not)
Most cans get recycled. There’s even hobos looking in communal garbage bins for recyclable containers because although there’s not a lot of money in it, it gets them what food banks don’t.
I think most of Europe does this but in the rest of the world I’m not sure how much gets recycled or not
but in the rest of the world I’m not sure how much gets recycled or not
Unfortunately some developing countries have problems with waste segregation and disposal, especially those with cultures where their packaging was then organic (paper bags, banana leaf wrappers, etc. for food) before being replaced by plastic-based packaging, so with little to no convenient places to dispose their trash properly, it ends up almost everywhere. That some balk at segregation, believing they don’t want to be inconvenienced.
This is sometimes done on a state by state basis in the US. Execution varies between states too, some states have it so if you sell stuff in bottles and cans you must also be able to accept returns, whereas other states you have to take them to a special facility which no one does except the hobos you were mentioning.
Reduce first, then recycle, yes!
Reduce, Reuse, and recycle what is left when possible. But avoid, whenever possible, non-reusable containers in the first place, thereby reducing your overall footprint.
I used one for some coffee and a few popsicles and all I got was coffee that tasted awful and had popsicle sticks floating around in it.
I suggest that you try the coffee and the Popsicles separately next time.
Also, not so great for Popsicles. Better for beverages, generally speaking.
Only because of my infant, I was researching proper, reusable bottles. I came across Pura and also ordered one for me. I absolutely love it. Replaceable/interchangable parts, using nothing but stainless steel and medical grade silicone.
Recycling is a very local thing, do it instead of leaving the bottle somewhere it can end up in nature. It’s also just a good and nice thing, same as minimising your plastic use, eating less meat (or ysing any products with animalistic ingredients etc.), buying as much as you can second hand or from companies that specifically go for longevity, natural and ecological ingredients, sustainability and so on.
The real choices are what brands you buy from. Never give money to any company that has any connection to people like this.
